Lil Nas X released the music video for his new single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” on Friday.
The Independent in London describes it more concisely as having more ” to do with atheism and libertarian ideals of the freedom to indulge, muddled together with a dash of Machiavellian pragmatism.” We needed a representative for that revolutionary, creative, irrepressible spirit within us.” the group’s site says of the founding, “LaVey saw there must be a new representative of justice … He began to realize that most of our progress in science and philosophy had been achieved by those who rebelled against “God” and the Church, or the dictates of conventional society. The Church of Satan was created by American author and musician Anton Szandor LaVey 50 years ago. Not another penny will go your way.” His tweet joins the swiftly dismissed tweets yesterday by the Governor of South Dakota.Ī fun thing to do during this whole event is watch people out themselves as being either too dumb or too lazy to understand that Nike wasn’t involved with those shoes, they were purchased and customized after the fact by a separate company. My closet is now cleansed of all Nike sneakers, shirts, shorts and hats. The Church also joined in defending Lil Nas X in the Twitter pile on destroying Congressman Mark Gonsalves, Repub from Georgia (of course) who tweeted “Promoting Satanism is not cool #Nike. “the rapper is giving the middle finger to those who said he’d burn in hell for his sexuality, and that the Church of Satan applauds him for ‘living life on his own terms and being his honest self,’ which may well infuriate his detractors even more. What would Colin Kaepernick think about the company he endorsed wasting time on such dances on the head of a pin? Balancing things out is the unreserved endorsement by the Church of Satan.ĭavid Harris, magister for the Church of Satan and host of podcast ‘ Satanism Today‘, told TMZ that Satanists are impressed by ‘the way Lil Nas X is turning against religion to market his customized Nike Air Max 97 shoes,’ So Nike is not just a little pissed about the use of these shoes, though they were paid for.